Notebook entitled 'Poems 1913' containing fair copies and a few drafts of nineteen poems

Title

Notebook entitled 'Poems 1913' containing fair copies and a few drafts of nineteen poems

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. poet. d. 250

Summary

All the poems, with the exception of the unpublished 'When viewless roses…', were collected in The Golden Journey to Samarkand and The Old Ships. For an account of this notebook see Sherwood, pp. 176-177. Contents include:

(fols. 5-6r) 'When viewless roses…', Feb 1913

(fols. 7-10r) 'Oak and Olive'

(fol. 11r) 'A ship, an isle, a sickle moon…'

(fols. 12-13r) 'Hospital', Mar 1913

(fol. 14r) 'Doris', 14 Apr 1913

(fol. 15r) 'from Jean Moreas 'Stances'', 14 Apr 1913

(fol. 16r) 'Pannyra of the Golden Heel', 14 Apr 1913, first published in the New Statesman, 14 Mar 1914

(fols. 17-19r) 'Brumana', Apr 1913

(fols. 23-25r) 'China', May-Jun 1913, published as 'Taoping'

(fols. 25r) a printed cutting of 'The princess' from Country Life, 4 Feb 1911; see Sherwood, pp. 122-123, 128

(fol. 27r) 'Stillness', Nov-Dec 1913, first published in the New Statesman, 10 Jan 1914

(fols. 28-29r) a fair copy of Flecker's first version of 'God Save the King', Jan 1914, published in Poetry and Drama, no. 5, Mar 1914, with (fols. 82r) a copy of verse three from the second version, in Helle Flecker's hand

(fols. 30-31r) 'O happy dome…', Jan 1914, first published as 'Hexameters' in Poetry and Drama, no. 5, Mar 1914

(fols. 32v-36r, 38v-40r, 84v-87r) drafts and copies of 'The burial in England', Sep-Oct 1914, n.d.

Fols. 41-81 are blank.

Date

1913-1914

Language

English

Physical extent

87 Leaves